Johann Eccarius

Johann Georg Eccarius ( born August 23, 1818 in Friedrichroda in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha -Altenburg; † March 5, 1889 in London) was a German Schneider, a leading member of the Communist League and the International Working Men's Association.

Life

Johann Georg Eccarius was the son of the tailor Johann Heinrich Eccarius (* April 21, 1776, † 1844 ) and his wife Sophie Henriette Maria, born pride (* July 14, 1774, † 1845). He was the fourth child of his parents. On September 1, 1818, he was baptized by the pastor Engelhard. His siblings were Johann Friedrich Eccarius ( born March 15, 1804), Anna Catharina Eccarius ( born April 15, 1808 † 1813); Anna Barbara Eccarius (* June 3, 1815, † 1879); Barbara Elisabetha Eccarius (* June 5, 1821, † 1890) and Johann Friedrich Eccarius ( born May 26, 1823). It was Easter 1832 confirmed by Rev. Carl Ludwig Mothschiedler. Eccarius visited after confirmation the "Sundays and Vocational School for confirmirte boys " in his hometown and learned the trade of a tailor. From military service Eccarius was classified "because of physical infirmity or illness [ ... ] for field service as unfit ." In 1839 he began a mandatory journeyman hike. In Hamburg, he became a member of the local Workers' Educational Association, where he was mainly under the influence of utopian- communist circle around Wilhelm Weitling. Here he met Friedrich Lessner. Director of the Hamburg Worker Council were Johann Friedrich Martens and Georg Gottlieb Schirges. Eccarius went early in 1846 to London, and was there in early 1847 a member of the Communist Workers' Association and the League of the Just. Since 1847 he was a leading member of the Communist League. On June 18, 1848 Eccarius wrote on behalf of the District Authority of the Communist League in London whose central authority in Cologne: "In the B [ and ] MASN itself was extremely excited and doskutierte about nothing else than the French and German Revolution; of the French Republic and the politics of the day in general. "

" The members of the Workers' Association in Cologne [ ... ] Our enemies, the men of the money bag and its allies, have long been directly or indirectly associated to more easily defend themselves against that class of human society, which is being exploited every day; they have conspired against those on whose shoulders the entire burden of the states is, against those who produziren everything and of their sweat and blood of the rich build their palaces and live in luxury and indulgence. It is therefore high time that we, the workers, unite us to go against our enemies and throw off the yoke of the most shameful slavery, guardianship, has regirt over us for quite some time, must stop, we can not and must our own affairs no longer trust put in other hands, we have to be independently and organize our thing itself, the interest of the working classes must be raised to the national interest and for this to be done, the proletariat must the herschende Parthei in the State be and the old social overturn state, but this goal can be achieved in no other way than by the workers of the world unite and fight the common enemy; therefore, it is not enough that we unite in individual cities and go separately from all other locations on our goal going the clubs which exist in different places, have regular correspondence in contact with each other are so wrought everywhere by a common Plane can. [ ... ] On behalf of education = Society for workers in London, JG Eccarius, writer. "

Also, the new central authority of the federal of 1849 he was a member. From 1850 he was active in journalism. In 1860, he also survived a severe tuberculosis disease and was maintained by Karl and Jenny Marx.

After the League of Communists resolution Eccarius was one of the leading members of the "New Workers' Association". At the suggestion of Karl Marx Eccarius sat at September 28, 1864 Präsiduum the inaugural meeting of the International Working Men 's Association ( IAA) and was its vice - president. In addition to Karl Marx, William Randal Cremer, Friedrich Lessner and Carl pledges, he was one of the most active members of the General Council of the International Workingmen's Association. Eccarius attended all meetings and Delegiertenkonferrenzen the International part. As an emissary of the First International in 1868 he took part in Nuremberg at the convention German Workers' Associations, who spoke out in particular under the influence of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht for connection to the International. In 1869 he visited his sisters in Thuringia.

In May 1872 came the General Council of the IAA to disagreements about Victoria Woodhull New York " section 12 " of the IAA between Eccarius, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and the majority of the General Council. With Eccarius agreed only John Hales match.

After the Hague Congress of IAA it was mainly for the English trade unions active and secretary of the London tailor union " City Tailors ". In 1872 he took British citizenship. In September 1873 he took part in the Geneva Congress of the International Bakuninist. He died on March 5, 1889 from the effects of bronchitis.

Works

  • The members of the Workers' Association in Cologne. In: Journal of the Workers' Association of Cologne. No. 7 of June 4, 1848
  • The battle of the Great and Small capital or Tailoring in London. In: New Rhenish Gazette. Political and Economic Review. Hamburg 1850 Issue 5/6 (May-October 1850) digitized
  • A tailor working: The working tailors of London. In: The Red Republican. Ed. by George Julian Harney. London. Vol 1, No. 22 and 23 from 16 and November 23, 1850
  • The Last Stage of Bourgeois Society. In: The Friend of the People. Ed. by George Julian Harney. London. No. No. 4-7 from January 4 to January 25, 1851
  • The discernement of a Manchester school philosopher. In: The Friend of the People. Ed. by George Julian Harney. London. No. 9 of February 8, 1851
  • The Well -Being of the Working Classes. In: Notes of the People. Ed. by Ernest Jones. London No. 22, dated September 27, 1851
  • A Review of the Literature on the Coup d' Etat [Part 1-8 ]. In: Notes of the People. Ed. by Ernest Jones. London No. 21bis 33 from September 25 to December 18, 1852
  • The State of France [ I. to III. ]. In: The People's Paper, the champion of political justice and universal right. Ed. by Ernest Jones. London No. 63 to 65 from July 16 to July 30, 1853
  • A Russian defeat - Aberdeen Peace Sermon - The British labor movement. In: The Reform. New York No 103 of December 8, 1853
  • Working conditions in England. In: The Reform, New York No. 121 and 123, 29 and December 31, 1853
  • The press and the strike. In: The people. London No. 16 of August 20, 1859
  • On the reform question. I and II Add: The people. London No. 13 of July 30, 1860
  • The commonwealth. Organ of the reform movement. A journal of political, social, economical, and literary intelligence. Edited by George Odger and Johann Georg Eccarius. Industrial News Paper Co, London 1866-1867
  • Congress of working men. In: The Times. London No. 25593 of September 3, 1866
  • A working man 's refunction of some points of political economy and advokated endorsed by John Stuart Mill, Esq, MP In: . The Commonwealth. The organ of the reform movement. London No. 192-211 of November 17, 1866 to March 23, 1867
  • One worker refutation of the national- economic doctrines of John Stuart Mill's. Albert Eichhof, Berlin 1869 digitized
  • B. Lucraft, John Weston, J. George Eccarius, Hermann Jung: The lockout of construction workers in Geneva. The General Council of the International Working Men's Association to the workers and [sic ] workers in Europe and the United States. London, 5 July 1870. Cooperativ book printing, Geneva 1870
  • The International Working Men 's Asscociation. In: The Times, London No. 27205 of October 27, 1871
  • The hours of labor. A paper read at the Century Club, under the auspices of the Labour Representation League. At the Office of the Labour Representation League, London 1872
  • An English International Congress. In: The Times on January 28, 1873
  • The battle of the great and the small capital or Tailoring in London. Cooperatives Buchdruckerei, Leipzig, 1876.
  • One worker refutation of the national- economic doctrines of John Stuart Mill's. Publisher of the People's bookstore, Hottingen - Zurich 1888 ( Social Democratic library 21).
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